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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Walter and Duncan Gordon Charitable Foundation

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C$972k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
Regions reached
C$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k21 grants · C$67k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$105k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$800k
C$5,000
Median grant
10
Regions reached
C$80M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANNAUMAKKAIJIIT COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$150,000
ANNAUMAKKAIJIIT COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$150,000
MCGILL UNIVERSITYC$100,000
MCGILL UNIVERSITYC$100,000
MCGILL UNIVERSITYC$100,000
MCGILL UNIVERSITYC$100,000
ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATIONC$100,000
INUVIK YOUTH CENTREC$30,000
WALRUS FOUNDATION THEC$25,000
EQUITAS - INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTSC$20,000
IISD EXPERIMENTAL LAKES AREA INCC$10,000
JUST ORGANIZATIONS SERVING HUMANITY PROJECT INC.C$10,000
CONFEDERATION CENTRE OF THE ARTSC$10,000
CANADIAN COUNCIL OF PROVINCIAL AND TERRITORIALC$6,000
YOUTH WITH A MISSION FOUNDATIONC$6,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Quebec
C$1.4M
Ontario
C$947k
Nunavut
C$706k
Nova Scotia
C$363k
British Columbia
C$190k
Yukon
C$115k
Northwest Territories
C$68k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$36k
Manitoba
C$30k
New Brunswick
C$30k
Saskatchewan
C$10k
Prince Edward Island
C$10k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.9M · 46 repeat orgsC$527k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
38

Total granted

C$3.9M
C$421k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+38%

Still filing today

91%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$106k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”

Backed again, and grew

  • MU
    McGill University
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$1.2M · revenue +23%
  • SM
    Saint Mary's University
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$282k · revenue +64%
  • MF
    MakeWay Foundation
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$127k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • UT
    UNUAVUT TUNNGAVIK INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · C$50k
  • FF
    FOOD FIRST FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$50k · revenue +239% · 54% of their budget
  • UO
    University of British Columbiagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$30k · revenue +55%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies/Association Universitaire Canadienne D'etudes Nordiques

The association awarded awards from the canadian northern trust. the association maintained a web page of information concerning northern affairs.

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2
Inuit Art Foundation

As the only national organization dedicated to supporting Inuit artists working in all media and geographic areas the Inuit Art Foundation has sought to empower and support Inuit artists’ self-expression and self determination while…

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3
Nunavut Tunngavik Foundation

Provision of educational funding to inuit enrolled under the nunavut agreement in the form of a cultural and healing program and two scholarship programs

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4
The Arctic Institute of North America

Sponsor scientific research plus acquisition and dissemination of information about the North through the scientific journal 'Arctic' book publications Arctic Discovery & Access is a digital educational service Arctic Library photo…

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5
National Gallery of Canada Foundation

Assisting the national gallery of canada in the areas of education curatorial research acquisitions and public programs.

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6
L'Institut international de Montréal pour l'environnement / the Montreal international institute for the environment
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7
Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre (Ahrn-Nu)

Health research

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8
Nunavut Arctic College

Post-Secondary Education

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9
University of Northern British Columbia

Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies

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10
Earthroots Fund

Earthroots fund works to promote the protection of canada's wilderness wildlife and watersheds through research and public education

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11
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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12
Ocad University Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the most unlike its peers is Nunavut Sivuniksavut. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 95 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/80
Grantees still filing
59/80
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMcGill University — C$1,245,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANNAUMAKKAIJIIT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$750,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION — C$550,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetSaint Mary's University — C$282,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMakeWay Foundation — C$126,695 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$84,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYUKON LEARNING SOCIETY — C$65,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetWALRUS FOUNDATION THE — C$55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYukon University — C$52,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MOUNTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FIRST FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetThe Cathedral of the Holy Trinity — C$40,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTaking IT Global Youth Association — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAM BLACK MEMORIAL UNITED CHURCH — C$35,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetInuit Circumpolar Council Foundation — C$35,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetArt Gallery of Ontario — C$34,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of British Columbia — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINUVIK YOUTH CENTRE — C$30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNunavut Food Bank-Niqinik Nuatsivik — C$28,500 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetGEORGIAN BAY FOREVER — C$26,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMASSEY COLLEGE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Halifax Women's History Society — C$25,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetCHU SAINTE-JUSTINE FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQAYUQTUVIK SOCIETY — C$23,490 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetNature Conservancy of Canada — C$23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Wise Conservation Association — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatherine Donnelly Foundation — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAvataq Cultural Institute Inc — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUITAS - INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCamp Awakening Incorporated — C$18,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetPlaywrights' Workshop Montreal Incorporated — C$16,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetOCEANS NORTH — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Manitoba — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Ditchley Foundation, The — C$15,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetECOLOGY NORTH — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFirst Nations University of Canada Inc. — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt. Mary's River Association — C$15,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetInstitute for Canadian Citizenship — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH WITH A MISSION — C$14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Northwest Territories — C$10,495 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCONFEDERATION CENTRE OF THE ARTS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFONDATION DE L'HÔPITAL MAISONNEUVE-ROSEMONT — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetONTARIO HORTICULTURAL TRADES FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIISD EXPERIMENTAL LAKES AREA INC — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNunavut Sivuniksavut — C$10,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCJ Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 11% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Makeway FoundationThe Chawkers foundati…The McLean FoundationJackman FoundationUnited Way of Northwe…The J W McConnell Fam…Toronto FoundationMastercard FoundationButterfield Family Fo…The George Cedric Met…Ottawa Community Foun…Judy and Wilmot Matth…
Makeway FoundationBC15.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Makeway Foundation · The Chawkers foundation · The McLean Foundation · Jackman Foundation · United Way of Northwest Territories · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · Toronto Foundation · Mastercard Foundation · Butterfield Family Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 119288140:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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